We won’t know until later this week where Hawaii News Now sports anchor/reporter Taryn Hatcher is going to end up. But we do know she is definitely out the door at Raycom triopoly KGMB/KFVE/KHNL. ...
You begin to wonder if the message will ever get through to the corporate geniuses in Irving, TX that something appears to be radically wrong at Nexstar’s WHTM in Harrisburg, PA, despite all protestations ...
Robert Johnson is a summer intern at Disney’s WPVI in Philadelphia, PA And for the Penn State student, it’s a lifelong dream come true. “I would just hear the action news theme song. That ...
Jeff Glor anchored the “CBS Evening News” from Los Angeles last night and tonight he will hold forth from San Francisco. In between, he is keynoting the PromaxBDA Station Summit in Las Vegas, tag-teaming ...
As Disney and Comcast throw all caution to the winds in their haste to swallow up the big chunks of 21st Century Fox that Rupert Murdoch no longer wants, is there anything either of ...
All KTHV sports anchor Hayden Balgavy wanted to do was have a good time covering the College World Series in Omaha, NE. Then he got spooked by a python that was being held by ...
After nearly four years at the sports anchor desk for Dispatch Broadcasting’s WTHR in Indianapolis, IN, Jason Spells is saying his goodbyes and is Texas-bound. He did his last weekend sportscast Sunday and will ...
Jill Washburn lands at Fox O&O WJBK in Detroit as a Freelance Meteorologist. Three years ago, she also worked at CBS O&O WWJ in Detroit. She also has her own corporate communications company and ...
It’s gonna take some kind of acting to convince viewers that Russell Crowe is Roger Ailes, don’t you think? But Showtime is hoping we’ll buy the casting of its mini-series, “The Loudest Voice in ...
Let’s go over a few commonly mispronounced words and send you on your way. The pronunciation of “vice versa” gets battered every now and then and comes out “VICE-UH versa.” You should say it ...
Sure, they are the Three Dumbest People On Television, happy to be occupying the kurvy kouch. Of course, they have nothing to do with news as practiced by actual journalists. This is a Fox ...
Over the weekend, we received a copy of an email that was sent out late Friday. We’ll leave it here without further comment. June 22, 2018 Dear NAHJ members, The Board has received an ...
Spectrum News’ not-yet-launched cable news channel in Los Angeles, CA named Cater Lee VP of News. She’s spent the last seven years as Vice President of Programming for Scripps, but has worked at several Los ...
Kay Norred moves to Nexstar’s WFXR in Roanoke, VA as news director. She’s been the ND at another Nexstar operation, WRBL in Columbus, GA, for almost three years. Kay’s been an ND for WHSV in Harrisonburg, VA and has ...
Mark Silberstein starts today (Monday) as the next news director for Nexstar’s WETM in Elmira, NY. Mark most recently has been the senior producer at WNEM in Flint/Saginaw, but has worked in a number of places ...
A proposed net neutrality bill in California has now lost even the support of its original legislative sponsor after the measure was “gutted” in a committee. State Senator Scott Weiner’s bill would have essentially ...
Adam Plyler is the new news director for Gray Television’s WDTV in Clarksburg, W. VA. He’s moving into the position from a 6 pm producer slot at sister station WSAZ in Huntington-Charleston, W.VA. He ...
Where he once made his post-military living trashing all things Obama on Fox News, retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, now a FORMER Fox analyst, is making it a fulltime job to trash Fox News. ...
Lee Southwick showed up as the new weekend forecaster on Raycom flagship WSFA in Montgomery, AL. She spent the last three years as a meteorologist for WUFT, the University of Florida PBS station and ...
Tribune’s Quad Cities station, WQAD, is preparing to say goodbye to a familiar face. Anchor Chris Minor is leaving the station, and the business, after 33 years. 33 years. She’s in the middle of ...
The FCC is being asked by several states to deny the proposed merger of Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and her counterparts in Iowa and Rhode Island petitioned ...
It was only a little over a year ago that reporter/anchor Keith Whitney landed at Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta after taking a buyout from Tegna’s WXIA. He’s already moved on. Whitney starts Wednesday as ...
WTVJ weekend anchor Johnny Archer and station photographer Shane Walker escaped serious injury when they were struck by a car while bicycling along Crandon Boulevard on Key Biscayne. The driver of the car did ...
It’s a lucky 13….years that is, for KCCI sports director Andy Garman. He’s signing off the Hearst station in Des Moines, IA, after a baker’s dozen years at the sports desk, and leaving the ...
Less then two weeks after he wrote a letter that was, in effect his goodbye, Fox News contributor, author and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer died. Krauthammer was of the neoconservative school of intellectual thought ...
It was no secret that Amanda St. Hilaire was leaving Nexstar’s troubled WHTM in Harrisburg, PA. She was the most recent of a slew of exits out the door. St. Hilaire was also one ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group’s “chief political analyst” wants you to know that as far as coverage of the “zero tolerance” family separation policy goes, the “Bottom Line with Boris” is that it is a creation ...
Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) and Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin have teamed up on a bipartisan bill protecting journalists, as the GOP lawmaker’s intent is to “shield reporters from having freedom of the ...
Score one for the Scripps’ legal team. We told you two weeks ago they wanted a new judge in a case involving their Cleveland outlet. This week, Cuyahoga County (OH) Judge Kelly Ann Gallagher ...
It was a crappy idea when CNN’s Jeff Zucker mandated it for a ratings boost in 2015-16 and it remains a crappy idea. Wall-to-wall coverage of a political rally is anything but news. It ...
An arrow element that Tegna’s WFAA in Dallas first rolled out in May on its news set and in graphics has found its way into a new station promo. “We are…” is the theme ...
Tuesday was the last day for meteorologist Ronelle Williams at Meredith’s KCTV in Kansas City, MO The station wasted no time erasing all signs of his affiliation, dropping his bio and deactivating his station ...
...the impending arrival of former WMC meteorologist Andrew Kozak in the near future. He filled us all in on Facebook. “Excited and honored to be joining CBS in Kansas City as a freelance meteorologist ...
Telemundo used heightened viewership and excitement to unveil a slimmed-down logo and a new branding campaign The umbrella title of the campaign is “Together Unstoppable,” (Juntos Imparables) focusing on the World Cup coverage. As ...
It appears that the National Association of Hispanic Journalists is in hot water with some of its membership over the group’s silence on how to cover family separations at the border. “Some members are ...
There is more than one troubled border region in the world and while much of the US media (with some glaring, albeit unsurprising exceptions), is focused on the U.S.-Mexico, Voice of America host Greta ...
From the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tipline. It’s untraceable and, if you’ve got a story, it’s a way to get the word out. You’ll find it over on the right hand column, ...
According to a story on billypenn.com, Philadelphia Sixers fans are none too happy over the dismissal of sideline reporter Molly Sullivan by NBC Sports Philadelphia after six years. The suits gave Sullivan the shop-worn ...
How the hell does this happen? As ABC News was covering – “live” – the announcement by Mr. Trump that he would sign an executive order to put an end to his heartless southern ...
Acting on a tip, NY1 reporter Josh Robin showed up at a foster agency in New York City where children caught up in the “zero tolerance” crackdown were taken. Robin got exclusive video of ...
feck·less adjective lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible. You know, before Samantha Bee combined the above word with the name for a female body part to insult Ivanka Trump, the only other time ...
“I’ll see your $66 billion and raise you another $5.3 billion.” And so Disney has finally weighed in on Comcast’s bid to usurp Disney as the suitor for much of 21st Century Fox. Disney ...
If you’re looking to see what the future of news content might be, you might want to check out NBC “Left Field,” the digital video unit of NBC News launched with a license to ...
This is not about the anemic ratings for “Get Up”, the much-hyped morning talk show emanating from the expensive new digs at Manhattan’s South Street Seaport. It’s not about the disappearing act performed on ...
In the wake of CEO Barry Lee Myers, brother of AccuWeather founder Joel Myers, being named by the Trump administration as the new head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (pending Senate ...
To paraphrase a reporter we once worked with, “I-it’s called “immersive mixed reality” and here’s how it works.” The Weather Channel on Wednesday used it to demonstrate the power of a tornado – by ...
It was a quiet bow-out for Danielle Robay who signed off last week as co-host of “The Jam,” the news, talk and entertainment show airing from 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday on ...
After three years in the morning anchor chair, Christina Carilla is leaving Waterman duopoly WBBH/WZVN in Ft. Myers, FL. She is moving across the country to work as to help launch a new daily ...
Brandon Orr is slated to be will be the new weekend morning meteorologist at Berkshire Hathaway’s WPLG in Miami. He’s saying goodbye to Sinclair’s WKRC in Cincinnati, as well as winter. For the past ...
Richard Valeriani began his news career in the late 1950s at the Associated Press, when he was dispatched to Cuba to report on the Bay of Pigs in 1961. While still in Cuba, he ...
Into the courtroom we go for today’s grammar lesson. Folks have been pleading with Mrs. B to run a reminder about the past tense of “plead.” Indeed, my AP Stylebook has the following entry: ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman dropped a bombshell over the past 24 hours, with exclusive word that the parting between Disney’s KGO in San Francisco and former sportscaster Mike Shumann was NOT the mutual ...
Stay with us now. This is big media business in 2018. Disney has agreed to a deal in principle to acquire the Sky News network from European pay TV giant Sky and boost its ...
After more than three decades doing sports at KRON in San Francisco, Gary Radnich is hanging it up this September. Six daily newscasts plus co-hosting a daily radio show on KNBR finally drove Radnich ...
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow broke down in tears on-air last night over a report about the Trump administration operating “tender age” shelters for migrant babies and toddlers. Maddow choked up while reading the first lines ...
Former “Today Show” co-anchor Ann Curry has a litmus test for detecting bias in tv news Curry, currently hosting PBS’ “We’ll Meet Again”, picked up the idea as the result of watching Walter Cronkite ...
Lisa Meadows is Twin Cities-bound after wrapping up her tenure as weekend meteorologist at CBS-owned KOVR in Sacramento, CA. She’d been with the station two years. She’s landing at sister-station WCCO in Minneapolis, her ...
Gray Television’s Topeka, KS-based WIBW wasted no time filling its two sports openings. This weekend Nicole Feyh debuted. Feyh is a Kansas graduate who had been working at sister station KALB in Alexandria, La., ...
Noah Kotch is the new editor-in-chief of MailOnline, the digital counterpart of the Daily Mail. Kotch was previously the founding publisher of “Heat Street” – a short-lived website launched in 2016 by former Conservative ...
Little “GMA” in this case being “Good Morning Acadiana” the morning program at Cordillera’s KATC in Lafayette, LA has made it official. After the proverbial “nationwide search,” management found what it was looking for ...
Bet you didn’t know that the much (and justifiably so) maligned “tronc” handle was supposed to shorthand for “Tribune online content,” did you? Not many people did and generally (as we did yesterday) made ...
Just leave it right here on the tipline. It’s anonymous. It’s untraceable. And it’s a way to get spread the word. Check out the right hand column right under the video of the day. ...
Sarah Lucero’s exit from the tv news business was not exactly voluntary. She left Tegna’s KENS in San Antonio last fall after 20 years at the station for the clichéd “more time with family” ...
Mrs. B is a long-standing George Strait fan. When George sings, “Where it’s at,” she can deal with it. Outside the context of a country song, however, such a redundancy makes her cringe! “Where” ...
Since the beginning of the “zero tolerance” immigration policy that is separating would-be immigrants from their children, the Trump Administration has been arguing – concurrently, mind you – that its family-separation policy: A) is ...
CNN has added two veteran reporters to the staff, both of them law enforcement coverage specialists. The additions will help the network bolster its coverage of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into Russian interference ...
Of course you knew that when a judge gave the go-ahead for AT&T to gorge itself on Time Warner, a little re-branding would be in order. We’re happy to report that magic mushroom-inspired names ...
Nancy Cox, anchor for Cordillera’s WLEX in Lexington, KY was hoping to get back into the anchor chair in July, following her recovery time from a complicated back surgery this spring. Scratch that. While ...
Retiring WRAL morning anchor Bill Leslie is making the rounds of the Raleigh-Durham market this week, handing out merch, glad-handing, signing autographs and telling war stories to all who will listen. We’re pretty certain ...
Nexstar’s WKRG is mourning the passing of Ray White, who anchored the station’s morning newscasts as part of his 13-year tenure with the station. White, who wrote several journalism textbooks used in college broadcast ...
After just under three years, sports anchor/reporter Jermaine Ferrell is making another move within the Nexstar system – this time from WFXR in Roanoke, VA to WRIC in Richmond, VA. He’ll be the weekend ...
Six months after she gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Bridgette, KCBS/KCAL weather anchor Jackie Johnson announced she’s not coming back to the job, and will stay at home as a ...
A former CNN program host who lost his job when he tweeted that President Trump was a “piece of shit” and “a stain on the presidency” is now dumping on one of Mr. Trump’s ...
While police have a suspect, they have yet to come up with a motive in the murder of former KHON sports reporter John Noland. Noland died Saturday morning after spending a week in a ...
Jaclyn Shearer is the newest member of the meteorology team at Cox-owned WSOC in Charlotte, NC. The Pittsburgh native moved cross-country after spending several years at Sinclair’s KRNV in Reno, NV. She also served ...
We were mystified a week ago over the story of Lauren Olesky, the West Palm Beach meteorologist whose nervous manhandling of a Rubik’s Cube while she did a weather segment on WPEC suddenly went ...
If you have a singular subject, you need a singular verb. If you have a plural subject (more than one), you need a plural verb. >The chief photog is waiting at the scene. > ...
What has been bubbling under in Orlando-area media and law enforcement circles for several days following a police standoff that left an officer gravely wounded and four child hostages dead – as well as ...
Long before Accu-Weather and The Weather Channel, in the Pittsburgh market, there was Joe DeNardo. The headline of this item was how conversations usually started when the topic of weather came up around Pittsburgh ...
Brad Hyatt has been promoted to news director for Raycom’s WIS in Columbia, SC. He’s been the Assistant ND since 2016 and interim ND for the past three months. GM Lyle Schulze shared the news ...
More than a dozen professional journalism and free speech advocacy organizations are demanding an explanation from Attorney General Jeff Sessions following the Department of Justice’s secret seizure of a reporter’s phone and email records. ...
In the Bay Area, blogger Rich Lieberman is keeping a close eye on anchor Ken Bastida, as his contract time approaches. News director Dan Rosenheim is slated to leave the ratings-challenged station (officially) July ...
Chuck Carter returns home to Philadelphia as EP for Fox’s WTXF. He had been the Assistant News Director for WTNH in Hartford/New Haven. Earlier in his career, Chuck was an ND for a WB affiliate in ...
When “Undivided ATTN” debuts next month as one of the offerings of fledgling Facebook Watch, what we are told to expect from the weekly program is focus on a single issue, presumably giving the ...
Gabriel Sherman, “Vanity Fair’s” official Trump-watcher has a particularly entertaining dispatch from the front lines. In it, Sherman presents a nugget suggesting that Mr. Trump is none-too-happy with the presence of Chris Cuomo on ...
Coming up this Wednesday, 21st Century Fox board members will meet to consider Comcast’s $65 billion bid for most of the company’s assets. Although the meeting and agenda had been set before Comcast jumped ...
40 years, most of it sitting at the anchor desk and all of it in the same market, outstrips most tv news careers these days. So, in what is increasingly become a rarity in ...
Former KTVT anchor Kaley O’Kelley left the Dallas CBS O&O last month in search of the ever-elusive “better work/life balance.” She evidently feels it can be achieved in Arizona. O’Kelley, who spent 3 ½ ...
Dayton reporter Jordan Bowen is heading for a sunnier outlook…he just can’t be any more exact about it. “Today is my last day at WDTN-TV. Thank you to the viewers for watching and thank ...
The lengths some people will go for charity. WSAZ meteorologist Chelsea Ambriz took a trip down the side of Huntington, W VA’s tallest building in the name of charity. She was among the first ...
Given what we’ve seen passing for news on social media in recent years, we’re ready to applaud the notion that the use of social media for news is falling across the world. That’s one ...
For the second time in three months, Nexstar’s WANE is losing one of its prime evening anchors. This time, its Brett Thomas, who sat alongside Heather Herron for the past three years, until she ...
Raycom Media on Thursday rolled out a new OTT app called InvestigateTV that is hyped as showcasing longer-form reporting from Raycom as well as a select group of partners including ProPublica, News21 at Arizona ...
We reported it yesterday, now it is confirmed that Graham Media’s WKMG in Orlando, FL is launching a new 9 AM newscast on July 2. “News 6 at Nine” will be hosted by Candace ...
Ashley Paredez is heading for Dallas from Austin, Texas as Fox O&O KDFW‘s newest morning reporter. “Her years in Austin have honed her ability to face the challenges of the Metroplex and I know ...
Borja Echevarría has packed up and left his job after four years as VP and Editor-in-Chief at Univision News Digital. His last day at Univision was Tuesday. Echevarría has returned to Spain to be ...
Nobody expects Disney to roll over and play dead as Comcast mounts what is effectively a bold, 11th hour bid for most of 21st Century Fox. But so far, the silence has been deafening ...
And what is NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke telling the troops about Comcast’s bid for the Fox assets? Here’s the full memo, as posted to the SEC’s website: I want to follow up on ...
